Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, criticized Michael Cohen's failure to lied to the congress: Just before the president wanted to leave for a high-level G20 summit in Argentina.

Giuliani made a statement Thursday in which he said Mueller's office was proving that Trump's former lawyer had lied to Congress using documents that had already been voluntarily published by the Trump organization, " because there was nothing to hide. "

filed a complaint as the president left for a meeting with world leaders at the G20 summit in Argentina, "said Giuliani.

Giuliani's statement prompted Mueller's office to play politics with the surprise announcement. Giuliani referred to a similar decision in July, when the Justice Department announced that twelve Russian intelligence officers were being charged with hacking the Democratic National Committee and others.

The July indictment was announced days before Trump's intended trump card Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki Trump met with Queen Elizabeth II at the time of the British announcement

Politico spoke with White House officials hoping that the G-20 summit would demonstrate Trump's ability to negotiate. Trump's upcoming lunch on Saturday with China's President X i Jinping is considered by some to be a meeting between the two leaders. Trump had also canceled a meeting with Putin over the recent collision of the Navy with Ukraine.

Cohen confessed, on Thursday, that he had lied to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal he was pursuing on behalf of Trump in the heat of the 201

6 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he lied to agree with Trump's "political message."

GREGG JARRETT: COHEN GUILTY PLEA invariably does nothing wrong than Trumper's offspring could blame the prosecutor's office The Trump Tower project in Moscow was persecuted weeks after the Republican presidential candidates were appointed by its chief ,

According to a report by BuzzFeed News, Trump's company planned to hand over the tower's penthouse to Putin as they worked on a real estate deal for the building during the 2016 campaign. The claim was made by four people, including one of the creators of the plan.

However, the plan would have been a "stupid idea," the source said Thursday in Fox News, adding that the president had "never heard of it."

Fox News is reported to have learned that Trump's legal team did not know about such a plan.

The plans for the construction of the building were finally rejected.

In the court records, there is no clear link between Cohen's lies and Mueller's central question as to whether the Trump campaign worked with Russia. And nothing said in court or related court records whether Trump or his aides had coerced Cohen into misleading Congress.

Giuliani told CNN, "neither of the two versions of Michael Cohen creates a problem for what the president says." [194559007] [News] Matt Richardson and Brooke Singman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.